Dr. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski Will Change How You Think About Space
She was also worried about the strong personalities she’d have to deal with in aerospace. “I was always scared something…
How to Measure the Impact From a Collision
Not only do I get the “shape” of the acceleration curve for the colliding cart, but I also get a…
A New Proof Moves the Needle on a Sticky Geometry Problem
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1917, the Japanese mathematician Sōichi Kakeya posed what at…
A New Idea for How to Assemble Life
According to assembly theory, before Darwinian evolution can proceed, something has to select for multiple copies of high-AI objects from…
Why room temperature superconductors are such a big deal | Digital Trends
Room temperature superconductors are a scientific holy grail. They’re like economically viable carbon capture, nuclear rocket engines, or energy net-positive…
When You Drop a Rock Overboard, What Happens to the Water Level?
Physics questions are the most fun when people don’t immediately agree on the answer. What feels intuitive or obvious—sometimes isn’t.…
One in five undergraduate trainee teachers don’t qualify
More from this theme Recent articles One in five undergraduate trainee teachers did not gain qualified teacher status (QTS) last…
Summer = Work
Summer is supposedly a period where people take it a tad easier, spend some vacation time away from anything that…
A Novel Type of Neural Network Comes to the Aid of Big Physics
Graham tried tweaking the CNN approach so that the kernel would only be placed on 3-by-3 sections of the image…
Maths skilling-up scheme for non-specialists falls short
More from this theme Recent articles Interest in a scheme to boost the number of maths teachers by skilling-up non-specialists…
The Tiny Physics Behind Immense Cosmic Eruptions
During fleeting fits, the sun occasionally hurls a colossal amount of energy into space. Called solar flares, these eruptions last…
A W, A Z, And A Top Quark
The world of elementary particles has something in common with our own: there are large inequalities in the properties of…
Ready, Set, Go! (Awesome Summer Science Experiments) | Science Buddies Blog
By Amy Cowen on June 1, 2023 12:00 PM Check in each week at Science Buddies this summer for our…
The Quest to Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing
Hotta found, to his surprise, that a simple sequence of events could, in fact, induce the quantum vacuum to go…
Neuromorphic Computing For Physics Applications
The recent developments in artificial intelligence, most notably the demonstration of the weird power of GPT4 and other large language…
Joint PhD Positions In Physics And Computer Science Available In Europe
The call for applications to Ph.D. positions at the University of Padova opened yesterday, and it will remain active for…
BOOK REVIEW: Make Physics Great Again. America Has Failed, By Alexander Unzicker
Few authors dare to say aloud things about physics or the history of physics that may go against the status…